How Can I Help?

PARENT VOLUNTEERS

We are looking for parent volunteers to actively participate in their son's Scouting experience!

In addition to joining our Troop Committee, we currently have the following available positions and opportunities to help:

• Trek Leaders and Assistant Trek Leaders

• Merit Badge Coordinator

• Merit Badge Counselors

• Board of Review Coordinator

  
If you want to volunteer or go on a campout with the Troop, you have to register as an adult member, take certain training via internet, and consent to a background check.  More information found here.

DONATIONS OF SUPPLIES OR FUNDS

Donations of supplies are always needed and greatly appreciated.
To donate supplies to Troop 801 please contact us using our Contact Us form.

Why should I volunteer or donate?

For Every 100 Boys who join the Boy Scouts:

• Only rarely will one be brought before Juvenile Court

• One will use his Scouting skills to save another person's life

• Two will use his Scouting skills to save his own life

• Four will become Eagle Scouts

• Eight will enter a vocation that was learned through the Merit Badge program

• Twelve will have their first contact with a church

• Seventeen will be future Scouting volunteers

• Eighteen will develop hobbies used during their adult life

The "Values of Americans" study conducted by Harris Interactive revealed that compared to their non-Scout counterparts, men who were Scouts are more likely to:

• Earn a college degree (35% vs. 17%)

• Own their own homes (74% vs. 65%)

• Have a higher average household income ($80,000 vs. $61,000)

• 83% of men who were Scouts agreed that the values they learned in Scouting continue to be very important to them today.

Likewise, a recent study by Baylor University found that compared to their non-Eagle Scout counterparts, men who had achieved the rank of Eagle Scout were more likely to:

• Have higher levels of planning and preparation skills, be goal-oriented, and network with others

• Be in a leadership position at their place of employment or local community

• Report having closer relationships with family and friends

• Volunteer for religious and nonreligious organizations

• Donate money to charitable groups

• Work with others to improve their neighborhoods

Thank you for volunteering and donating!